I did my presentation earlier and was very pleased to get a distinction.
So, as for analysing radio shows-something which everyone else haven't done as well, I will talk about Heart radio station, this is aimed at late teens up to early forties, the show includes older presenters about forty-fifty years old. The Heart is a local station for Oxfordshire and often has updates on the latest news and weather reports. It was originally called; 'Fox FM', however, after the change in name, a new quiz show was introduced and surrounds older music, but of course to answer the questions, there has to be callers that phone-in and a prize to be won at the end for the winner that answers the most questions right. The quiz asks questions on particular artists or bands about records, when they released or who sung them, often the questions are really hard and are for more older listeners, since the questions are based on older tracks and dedicated listeners to answer. The bed music is usually cheerful and relaxed and the mixing is done really well, the times I've listened to it there hasn't been any mistakes.
The presenters on the Heart usually sound relaxed and informal, however, they can often sound dull, however, they are able to maintain a rather cheerful atmosphere, I guess it's because of the bed music and that the callers sound cheerful enough when they speak. The presenters personality is easily recognised, I can tell that they like their jobs, but that often they're a little tired or bored.
As for the final radio show my group produced, it was a great success, the music was well chosen since it weren't just based on one genre but on all types, the mixing was executed really well and the jingles were very funky and creative. Mine and Freddie's speech package turned out really well and definitely set the mood of the show, the presenters were cheerful and all scored themselves Distinctions at the end. It held my interest until the end and at one point when there was some technical difficulties when my speech package wouldn't play, they thought on the spot and continued on with the show and played other songs, they handled the situation very well and apologised afterwards about the technical difficulties.
Presenting in my speech package was rather difficult at the time, since I was told to act cheerful but everytime I tried in my normal voice to be cheerful, but it didn't come out so well, so I put emphasis in a different voice, since myself and Freddie did our speech packages together, we both decided that we wanted to make it unique, I found it really fun and enjoyed it, thankfully it played at the end of the show and tied in with it.
Thursday 4 March 2010
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Final Live Show!
03/03/10.
Everyone was majorly stressed out today, I was feeling it as well, even though I weren't doing anything else in it.
It was probably a good thing I weren't presenting on the show since I've got a sore throat and can't stop sniffing and coughing, so when it did come to my groups live show, I decided to wait outside for them.
We all had sheets to write down comments on each live show, it was rather long and after a while got a bit boring, but it was interesting to hear how the others did, most of them did very well.
My group went last since Freddie DID end up coming in late, but he DID turn up and went straight to work :)
In my opinion, the show went really well and whilst I was sat outside, I decided to write down comments about what I thought of the show-which I accidentally left at college, I was very impressed when they still continued on with the show when there was some technical difficulties with-can guess it?
MY speech package, yep, there's just no end to my suffering.
I was very worried at that point, I was being marked on this and I hadn't been marked on anything else apart from that, so it was a HUGE relief when it finally played at the end of the show, clearer than I thought it would be and I didn't even cringe at the sound of my own voice in that weird American, creepy, mother-like accent.
Everyone got Distinctions-except for me, since I don't know what my grade is yet, Beckie said she'd tell me tomorrow, because I had to rush off for my bus, I can only hope it came out alright, the show over all got a distinction which I'm thankful for, since I knew how much the others really wanted it.
That's it for our radio shows, which I'm happy about, I'm not keen on radio and although it was interesting, I think I know what I want to do for my final project.
Tomorrow is our last radio lesson with Beckie, which is quite sad, but I'm sure I'll see her about, we have to take in everything we've done in radio tomorrow, so my bag is going to be VERY heavy and I shall then find out my grade for my speech package.
Oh! I'm also presenting my radio show presentation, a little late, but I'm glad all that hard work I put into it hasn't been for nothing :)
Everyone was majorly stressed out today, I was feeling it as well, even though I weren't doing anything else in it.
It was probably a good thing I weren't presenting on the show since I've got a sore throat and can't stop sniffing and coughing, so when it did come to my groups live show, I decided to wait outside for them.
We all had sheets to write down comments on each live show, it was rather long and after a while got a bit boring, but it was interesting to hear how the others did, most of them did very well.
My group went last since Freddie DID end up coming in late, but he DID turn up and went straight to work :)
In my opinion, the show went really well and whilst I was sat outside, I decided to write down comments about what I thought of the show-which I accidentally left at college, I was very impressed when they still continued on with the show when there was some technical difficulties with-can guess it?
MY speech package, yep, there's just no end to my suffering.
I was very worried at that point, I was being marked on this and I hadn't been marked on anything else apart from that, so it was a HUGE relief when it finally played at the end of the show, clearer than I thought it would be and I didn't even cringe at the sound of my own voice in that weird American, creepy, mother-like accent.
Everyone got Distinctions-except for me, since I don't know what my grade is yet, Beckie said she'd tell me tomorrow, because I had to rush off for my bus, I can only hope it came out alright, the show over all got a distinction which I'm thankful for, since I knew how much the others really wanted it.
That's it for our radio shows, which I'm happy about, I'm not keen on radio and although it was interesting, I think I know what I want to do for my final project.
Tomorrow is our last radio lesson with Beckie, which is quite sad, but I'm sure I'll see her about, we have to take in everything we've done in radio tomorrow, so my bag is going to be VERY heavy and I shall then find out my grade for my speech package.
Oh! I'm also presenting my radio show presentation, a little late, but I'm glad all that hard work I put into it hasn't been for nothing :)
Something Gone Wrong-AGAIN
01/03/10
I came in today and was told by Sophie that Freddie lost my speech package and either:
1. Had to re-do it for the 3rd time
OR
2. E-mail Beckie and tell her what's happened and what she thinks I should do about it.
I went with the 2nd idea and decided to wait and see what Freddie says when he turns up, so I waited and waited and waited, Freddie didn't turn up until fifteen minutes at the end of the last lesson of the day.
I'd forgotten to e-mail Beckie and by the time Sophie reminded me, I'd already logged off the computer, there was a bit of...discussion and in the end Freddie suggested to just use the audio from where we'd saved it on the computer and just edit it there.
I stayed behind for almost an hour with Sophie and Freddie, since we were originally going to record the adverts, however, the majority of the time was spent editing my speech package.
I really couldn't stay any longer and there still needed to be a lot to finish editing on my speech pacjage, Freddie said he'd finish it off for me-which I was grateful for and Sophie said that she would have Keerah in the advert, so I didn't have anything to worry about.
However, there was one thing that did annoy me, over the course of the week or so, I'd been told I was going to be a presenter in the show, I was looking forward to it, except when I asked Sophie if I'll have a copy of the script to read through first-thing on wednesday (she still needed to type the script up) she then told me "You're not presenting, me Freddie and James are presenting."
I was a little upset, but I knew it was her choice, I was just worried that Freddie won't turn up and then it'll all fall to pieces.
So, in the end, I've only got my speech package to be graded on, I don't mind too much, but I was hoping to have a go at presenting-guess it must be my unenthusiatic voice that put them all off the idea, since they complained about it before I went to record my speech package.
Sophie has organised everyone-apart from me, to go in tomorrow and run-through the show about 3:00pm?
Sometime like that.
I came in today and was told by Sophie that Freddie lost my speech package and either:
1. Had to re-do it for the 3rd time
OR
2. E-mail Beckie and tell her what's happened and what she thinks I should do about it.
I went with the 2nd idea and decided to wait and see what Freddie says when he turns up, so I waited and waited and waited, Freddie didn't turn up until fifteen minutes at the end of the last lesson of the day.
I'd forgotten to e-mail Beckie and by the time Sophie reminded me, I'd already logged off the computer, there was a bit of...discussion and in the end Freddie suggested to just use the audio from where we'd saved it on the computer and just edit it there.
I stayed behind for almost an hour with Sophie and Freddie, since we were originally going to record the adverts, however, the majority of the time was spent editing my speech package.
I really couldn't stay any longer and there still needed to be a lot to finish editing on my speech pacjage, Freddie said he'd finish it off for me-which I was grateful for and Sophie said that she would have Keerah in the advert, so I didn't have anything to worry about.
However, there was one thing that did annoy me, over the course of the week or so, I'd been told I was going to be a presenter in the show, I was looking forward to it, except when I asked Sophie if I'll have a copy of the script to read through first-thing on wednesday (she still needed to type the script up) she then told me "You're not presenting, me Freddie and James are presenting."
I was a little upset, but I knew it was her choice, I was just worried that Freddie won't turn up and then it'll all fall to pieces.
So, in the end, I've only got my speech package to be graded on, I don't mind too much, but I was hoping to have a go at presenting-guess it must be my unenthusiatic voice that put them all off the idea, since they complained about it before I went to record my speech package.
Sophie has organised everyone-apart from me, to go in tomorrow and run-through the show about 3:00pm?
Sometime like that.
Friday 26 February 2010
Bad News and Another Speech Package
25/02/10
Today isn't going so good, my group weren't impressed by my efforts for my speech package and told me I have to do it again, I was not best pleased, but decided to try again for their sake since they wanted a Distinction. In the end, both myself and Freddie were told to go out and make speech packages, mine being about favourite new bands/music again and Freddie's was about Festivals. Sophie wrote out a list of questions for us to ask, we got out a zoom and went around college once more. We went to reception and found barely anyone there, they weren't exactly willing to answer our questions and most of them found it suspicious that we were asking them to come along with us into an interview room where it was much quieter to ask them. In the end, we went along to the Loaf, found Beckie on the way there and she suggested about asking the BND 1st years to see if they would answer our questions. 3 of them actually came alogn with us! I was very relieved, it's a good thing that we're all friends. We went to the interview room and asked them our questions, they were really helpful, though sounded as though they were half-asleep, haha. After them, we interviewed one of Freddie's friends that I sometimes see hanging round reception. In the end, it took a long time and myself and Freddie, both decided to return to Sophie and edit our work. We returned and James swiftly began searching for our interviews, whilst Sophie was listening to some music for an idea of bed-music. We came up with a title for the show; "The 30 Minute Takeover" or "The Sophie Cullen Show". Sophie and James eventually left to go home, James was going to create the seven jingles Sophie requested, me and Freddie stayed and began recording our voices for the intro and outro of our speech packages along with the questions and choosing the bed music. We made our voices rather different, since we both agreed we have unenthusiastic voices-or so others tell us and we added a bit of our own quirkiness to it. It was a lot of fun. By the time we'd finished, it was time to go. So we both cleaned the room, freddie saved our work in a folder on the computer and onto his USB stick-since he said he'd finish editing it at home, I turned all the lights and computers off before leaving and then we left.
Tomorrow, Sophie said that we're going to be creating an advert together after college, sounds like it's going to be fun :)
Today isn't going so good, my group weren't impressed by my efforts for my speech package and told me I have to do it again, I was not best pleased, but decided to try again for their sake since they wanted a Distinction. In the end, both myself and Freddie were told to go out and make speech packages, mine being about favourite new bands/music again and Freddie's was about Festivals. Sophie wrote out a list of questions for us to ask, we got out a zoom and went around college once more. We went to reception and found barely anyone there, they weren't exactly willing to answer our questions and most of them found it suspicious that we were asking them to come along with us into an interview room where it was much quieter to ask them. In the end, we went along to the Loaf, found Beckie on the way there and she suggested about asking the BND 1st years to see if they would answer our questions. 3 of them actually came alogn with us! I was very relieved, it's a good thing that we're all friends. We went to the interview room and asked them our questions, they were really helpful, though sounded as though they were half-asleep, haha. After them, we interviewed one of Freddie's friends that I sometimes see hanging round reception. In the end, it took a long time and myself and Freddie, both decided to return to Sophie and edit our work. We returned and James swiftly began searching for our interviews, whilst Sophie was listening to some music for an idea of bed-music. We came up with a title for the show; "The 30 Minute Takeover" or "The Sophie Cullen Show". Sophie and James eventually left to go home, James was going to create the seven jingles Sophie requested, me and Freddie stayed and began recording our voices for the intro and outro of our speech packages along with the questions and choosing the bed music. We made our voices rather different, since we both agreed we have unenthusiastic voices-or so others tell us and we added a bit of our own quirkiness to it. It was a lot of fun. By the time we'd finished, it was time to go. So we both cleaned the room, freddie saved our work in a folder on the computer and onto his USB stick-since he said he'd finish editing it at home, I turned all the lights and computers off before leaving and then we left.
Tomorrow, Sophie said that we're going to be creating an advert together after college, sounds like it's going to be fun :)
Speech Package for Sophie's Show
24/02/10
Today I have been assigned to go out and make a speech package about favourite new bands and music. I could ask anyone I wanted and had to get 5-10 people the most, I interviewed 11. Of course they were rather brief, however, it was a real struggle to get people to come into an interview room and answer questions, most of the people I asked complained that they hated their voice and there was no way to persuade them. But I got it done in the end, I used a zoom to record the people I interviewed, I went around college and asked a range of people between [young and old], most of them were unsure of what song/artist/band they liked. It didn't take me long and I returned to Sophie, who told me to go down and edit them, so I went down to the edit suite and used Auditions to start editing them. Sophie said she'd come down about 10:30 but didn't show up even at 10:45 am, so I decided to go and take a break. It needs a little more editing, but hopefully it's what she's looking for.
Today I have been assigned to go out and make a speech package about favourite new bands and music. I could ask anyone I wanted and had to get 5-10 people the most, I interviewed 11. Of course they were rather brief, however, it was a real struggle to get people to come into an interview room and answer questions, most of the people I asked complained that they hated their voice and there was no way to persuade them. But I got it done in the end, I used a zoom to record the people I interviewed, I went around college and asked a range of people between [young and old], most of them were unsure of what song/artist/band they liked. It didn't take me long and I returned to Sophie, who told me to go down and edit them, so I went down to the edit suite and used Auditions to start editing them. Sophie said she'd come down about 10:30 but didn't show up even at 10:45 am, so I decided to go and take a break. It needs a little more editing, but hopefully it's what she's looking for.
Presentation Complete!
25/01/10
It took me a little longer than planned, however, I finally got my presentation complete, I have printed off two copies-one of which can be passed around the class when I give my presentation and the other for me to hold in case I need to refresh my memory, this will also be handed in with my work. My presentation includes pie charts and secondary research from websites. I have also sent an e-mail to Beckie with my presentation in it, just to see if I've done it right. The presentation is about 20-30 slides-can't remember exactly how many there are, but I have tried to make my ideas sound interesting and different to others.
It took me a little longer than planned, however, I finally got my presentation complete, I have printed off two copies-one of which can be passed around the class when I give my presentation and the other for me to hold in case I need to refresh my memory, this will also be handed in with my work. My presentation includes pie charts and secondary research from websites. I have also sent an e-mail to Beckie with my presentation in it, just to see if I've done it right. The presentation is about 20-30 slides-can't remember exactly how many there are, but I have tried to make my ideas sound interesting and different to others.
Research for James' Show
28/01/10
I have the research for James' show, I brought it to college with me because I haven't been in college a lot recently. Jame's told me to give it to Becky, Becky told me to give it to Jame's and so I shall give it to him when I see him next.
I have the research for James' show, I brought it to college with me because I haven't been in college a lot recently. Jame's told me to give it to Becky, Becky told me to give it to Jame's and so I shall give it to him when I see him next.
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